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The MP for Great Yarmouth, former Reform UK leading light Rupert Lowe has made us all regret the extended character limit now available to X Premium members by writing a novelette about London supposedly being a sh*thole. Not in those words. Not quite. London used to be the best city in the world. I loved […]

Vivian Jenna Wilson, the estranged eldest daughter of Elon Musk, is a successful model, a popular social media influencer, and – the one thing Musk would love to be but isn’t – very funny. She’s also trans – a fact that the tech billionaire seems unwilling or unable to accept. In a recent comment on […]

Reddit sells itself as the heart of the internet, but most people would agree that it’s more of a refuge for sarcastic contrarians than a place of sincere advice. However a question set by meh2280 bucks that trend. Posted on r/AskReddit, this query brought out the best side of the website and provided some genuinely […]

America is an extraordinary country in a myriad of ways. But over the last 10 years, the rest of the world has watched the US turn into a country that gets less and less attractive as a place to work or visit. And, for much of the world, a lot of that has to do […]

Tommy Robinson’s Christmas carol service seems to have hit a duff note. “Journalist” Robinson – or Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, according to the law and Santa’s Naughty List – had been publicising the London event for weeks as “putting Christ back in Christmas”. UTK: Put Christ Back in Christmas: Join Us in London This Saturday This isn’t […]

It has been another vintage weekend for history’s greatest, smartest, most popular and most handsome president. Donald Trump turned up at the 26th Army-Navy football game at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was asked to do the ceremonial pre-game coin toss. And boy, he did not disappoint. President Trump’s coin toss will […]

When you’re at school, it’s easy to feel like academic excellence will translate into success when you enter the real world. Life, however, often has other ideas. For every nerd that graduated to become a professional boffin, there’s another who took a more sideways career route. To get an insight into how the people who […]

When we consider what a nice compliment might be, we tend to focus on things like looks or having a good job or being super fit. But it turns out that the ones which stick with us are the ones that are more idiosyncratic and unexpected. They’ve been chatting about this on the AskReddit page […]

Everyone knows that life is chaotic and ultimately beyond their control. But at the same time most people have a vague idea of how they think it will play out. Well, guess again. Life is full of surprises, including twists and turns that will land you in situations you never expected to happen. To hear […]

Say what you like about Thomas Skinner – no, please do, we’ll wait – but he does try to entertain. The problem is he fails at it. A lot. Exhibit A: The Apprentice. Exhibit B: This year’s Strictly. Now here’s Exhibit C. Thomas and some mates were on the London Underground this week and tried […]